World's first successful urban trial of LTE technology

It also proves that LTE makes optimum use of the OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) and adaptive multi antenna technologies, as well as the intelligent algorithms used to schedule user traffic to the radio resources in multi-user environments.

This enables substantial optimization of network capacity and, in combination with a scalable flat network architecture, this will provide substantial benefits for operators offering mobile broadband connectivity.

The CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks, Stephan Scholz, said as the world continues to move closer to its vision of 5 billion people connected by 2015, mobile operators will need to use all of the available spectrum with minimum network complexity and maximum cost efficiency to handle a 100 fold increase in traffic.

"This field trial is an important initial proof of concept for LTE," Scholz said.

The trial was assisted by the Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), a worldwide recognized expert center in the field of intelligent adaptive MIMO/Algorithms.